Let's go away from that ugly GUI of jira and lets just stick to our terminals.
I started/created this project to improve my work flow. I was already using git, npm, grunt, bower ... etc. in my terminal, I wanted to use JIRA as well in my terminal.

• Search command with jql syntax.
• Auto complete in terminal.
• Extend the Filter plugin with showing which issues were edited since it the last time.

To install: npm install -g jira-terminal.
First time running it will promp you with some information to create a config file.

All the plugins have the help commands, IE jira-terminal issue help. This also shows what is already implemented.

Here are some screenshots of the application.

Here is an example of applying a transition and branch & checkout of the issue:

Under screenshots you can find more.

MIT